Paul Henry Suspended

NZPA News has tweeted: TVNZ has suspended Breakfast host Paul Henry without pay. He will return on air on Oct 18. This looks like a token effort by TVNZ to take the heat off themselves after they failed to publicly condemn Henry’s comments yesterday. For more see Racist Henry digs deeper hole Paul Henry, man…

Racist Henry Digs Deeper Hole

Despite offering a weak and feeble apology this morning to the general public for not intending to sound racist, Paul Henry has dug a deeper hole for himself by making disparaging remarks about the status of European Gypsies, who are currently being persecuted in France. From today’s NZ Herald: Henry apologised yesterday if he caused…

Paul Henry, Man Or Hobbit?

NZ Television host Paul Henry “shocked the nation’ this morning with his ‘un-PC’ comments about the NZ governor general Sir Anand Satyanand, which happened as international attention is focused on India and the Commonwealth games. The offensive remarks were contained in a question to the Prime Minister when Mr Henry asked John Key whether Sir…

Crime In Northland Increasing

Crime in Northland is increasing with 3.5% rise to 17,240 offences in the 12 months to 30 June 2010. The region has one of the highest crime rates in New Zealand. According to an article in the Northern Advocate: In the Far North policing area 6263 crimes were recorded in the 12-month period, a 2.6…